Filming Underway for FOX‘s New Original in Brazil

Based on the narco war in Rio de Janeiro in the 90s, Ouro Branco ("White Gold"), FOX Networks Group Latin America's new original series, will make its debut in the region on FOX Premium and the FOX App in 2018.

FOX Networks Group Latin America continues to strengthen its original content catalog, announcing it has begun production on Ouro Branco ("White Gold").

The new original drama series is based on a real story, revolving around the war between the drug trafficking cartels in Rio de Janeiro in the 90s.

Filming will take place for two months, on locations in Rio de Janeiro and Uruguay.

It's produced by the Barry Company (Faroeste Caboclo, Paratodos), with 10, one-hour episodes set to premiere in 2018 on FOX Premium and the FOX App.

Directed by René Sampaio (Faroeste Caboclo, 4All) and Tomás Portella (Qualquer gato vira lata, El Increíble Hulk) the new series tells the story of Evandro, a young man living in poverty in Rio de Janeiro who joins the army and loses his brother, who's murdered during a drug deal.

His thirst for revenge will awaken his savage side and his strategic mind and coldness will put him at the head of one of the largest criminal organizations in the world, while his success as a drug dealer will call the attention of Morello, a veteran and self-destructing policeman.

On the one hand, a criminal marked by innumerable losses and betrayals; on the other, a hunter who found a lion at his height and who can give him the honorable death he has been looking for for so long.

"Our strategy as leaders in original Latin American production, is to offer unique and representative stories of those things that matter to us, that motivate us and take them to our fans in an entertaining way, with the best production quality, making them available on all platformsm" said Edgar Spielmann, EVP & COO of FOX Networks Group Latin America.

"Ouro Branco is based on real-life facts, taken to fiction by an excellent team of writers and the FOX Premium screens by the best directors and producers in the region, and we are convinced that this proposal will be another successful story to join the results achieved by the series we have produced in Latin America."

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